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The rules every statement follows. All of them work the same in Free.
Free
Typed queries, grid saves, designer scripts and the app’s own catalog queries all go through one execution path and get a row in the local command log. The row is saved before the result is shown. Blocked statements are logged too. Parameter values are never stored.
Free
Every statement SQL Sleuth sends on its own starts with a /* sqleuth:… */ comment, so it is easy to spot in server-side traces.
Free
Grid saves, designers and object operations show the exact script first. You can copy it instead of running it. The script that runs is the script you reviewed.
Free
macOS Keychain or Windows Credential Manager. Secrets never go into the app’s files or the log, the UI can never read them back, and connection exports never include them. A saved secret is bound to its server.
Free
Launching the app never logs in to any server. There is no telemetry or usage analytics.
A connection manager for on-premises SQL Server, Azure SQL Database and Managed Instance.
Free
Navicat/SSMS-style, with test connection that reports connect time, server version and an On-premises or Azure badge.
Free
Nested folders for your connections.
Free
Dev, Test, Prod and Other.
Free
Prod connections get a red rail, a PROD badge and a banner that screen readers announce. Editing tabs start locked behind “Enable editing”. Enter never executes on prod, and the biggest drops require typing the object’s name.
Free
Refuse anything the app cannot prove is a pure read. The check fails closed. It is a local safeguard: a reader login is still recommended for production.
Free
A per-connection policy, on by default for Prod connections. Drops, truncates and grid saves that delete rows or change 100 or more rows ask for confirmation.
Free
Exports never include secrets. Imports show a preview first.
Free
Plain language, for example “Blocked by the Azure SQL firewall”, with your client IP.
Free
Windows only. Needs Microsoft ODBC Driver 18.
Free
System browser or device code, with persistent Entra sign-in.
Free
You only name the server. There is no tenant field, and no app registration or admin consent is needed.
A virtualized tree that covers every SQL Server object type.
Free
Covers every SQL Server object type, including temporal, columnstore, memory-optimized and ledger tables.
Free
Ctrl/Cmd+F filters the tree with no server query.
Free
Including row count, size and partitions.
Free
Byte for byte as stored.
Free
Works with VoiceOver and Narrator.
A T-SQL editor that follows the SSMS conventions you already know.
Free
Built on the VS Code editor engine, with multi-tab editing.
Free
Aliases, CTEs, temp tables and cross-database names. Filters up to 20,000 objects locally; larger databases are searched on the server.
Free
SQL Sleuth’s own formatter. It changes only layout and keyword case, never meaning.
Free
On one session, with a persistent session per tab.
Free
A per-tab row limit (default 10,000) pauses at the limit instead of re-running, with Load more and Load all.
Free
Stop cancels a running query within 1 second, even while 2 million rows are streaming.
Free
Files keep their encoding and line endings. Files up to 64 MiB open in the editor.
Free
Every tab, including unsaved text, comes back at the next launch.
Streaming results with exact values and SSMS display conventions.
Free
A 2-million-row result scrolls without freezing, because only the visible window is loaded. Large results spill to disk.
Free
With exact decimal, money and datetimeoffset values.
Free
Plus Copy as INSERT and Copy as UPDATE.
Free
CSV/TSV, JSON, JSON Lines, Excel, SQL INSERT or Markdown, with Excel fidelity safeguards.
Graphical plans drawn SSMS-style.
Free
Drawn SSMS-style, with warnings, missing-index hints and actual-vs-estimated rows.
Free
Compatible with SSMS in both directions.
A local record of what ran, and a place to keep the queries you reuse.
Free
Navicat-style, with quick-open.
Coming soonFree
Full-screen, with filters and export.
Open a table, filter it, edit it in place and review the script before saving.
Free
Open any table in a data tab, with exact key-based paging.
Free
Anything that isn’t a single SELECT is refused.
Free
Nulls, distinct values, histogram and top values.
Free
As of, and All versions.
Free
No Edit mode. Undo and redo. Paste from spreadsheets.
Free
You see the exact script before any grid edit reaches the server.
Free
When a row changed underneath you, choose Mine, Theirs or Original.
Commit behaviour is a per-tab choice, and nothing is left open by accident.
Free
With Commit and Rollback.
A value panel for the types a grid cell cannot show well.
Free
Text, Hex, Image, JSON tree, XML tree, Map and WKT.
Free
No map tiles are fetched.
Local rules that hide sensitive columns for screen sharing and demos. A local safety feature, not access control.
Free
Per connection or global. Rules hide sensitive columns in grids, copies, exports and query results. There is no reveal button and no unmasked export.
Free
Full, partial, email, hash, NULL and regex.
Designers that show the exact SQL that Save will run.
Navicat-style: fields, indexes, foreign keys, checks, triggers, options and storage.
Shows exactly what Save will run: ALTER when possible, a one-transaction rebuild when needed.
Views, procedures, functions and triggers, with Run with parameters.
With Azure tier awareness.
Rename, drop and move objects with the consequences shown first.
Never a silent cascade.
With Save as SVG.
Documentation generated from the schema.
Generate one for a database, schema or selection as HTML, Markdown or PDF (PDF on Windows and macOS). It never includes connection details, data values or masking rules.
The desktop app itself.
Free
Ctrl on Windows, ⌘ on macOS.
Coming soonFree
Press F1.
Coming soon
Pro tools for moving data in, out and between connections.
Coming soonPro
CSV/TSV, Excel, JSON/NDJSON/XML, and ODBC on Windows. Field mapping with live preview, and six import modes.
Coming soonPro
Nine formats including XML, HTML and PDF. Always masked.
Coming soonPro
Between connections: resumable, with safe defaults, or write a SQL file instead.
Coming soonPro
Realistic and typed generators, constraint-valid, with reproducible seeds.
Coming soonPro
With a Jobs tray.
Coming soon
Pro tools for comparing data and structure, then deploying the difference.
Coming soonPro
Compare, preview per row, then a one-transaction deploy or a sync script.
Coming soonPro
Schema compare with a side-by-side DDL diff, an ordered deploy script and verify after deploy.
Coming soon
Pro tools for watching a server and looking after it.
Coming soonPro
Processes, blocking tree, waits and locks, live plan and a guarded kill session.
Coming soonPro
Index maintenance wizard, update statistics, shrink and DBCC CHECKDB.
Coming soonPro
Login, user and role designers, a permission matrix, effective permissions and orphaned users.
Coming soon
How SQL Sleuth will be licensed, updated and installed.
Coming soonPro
Starts at first launch, works fully offline and needs no account or card. When it ends the app drops back to Free.
Coming soonPro
Paste a key or open a license file. The key is stored in the OS keychain.
Coming soonFree
Stable and Beta channels. The update check is a plain request for a static file with no version, machine ID or other identifier, and it never installs without a click.
Coming soonFree
Opt-in per report; the default is “Ask each time”. You see the exact redacted report before it is sent, and you can save it to a file instead.
Coming soonFree
AppImage and deb. Best effort, unsigned.